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Fuel’s rush in: US oil companies hurry to lay pipelines under Trump

A high-stakes battle is underway on multiple front lines across America, as Native American and climate change activists square off against oil and pipeline companies racing to lay as much infrastructure into the ground as quickly as possible.

The Hate Report: A spike in anti-Muslim incidents across America

This week saw a couple of stark examples of such harassment that were caught on camera and went viral.

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Border wall moving forward but feds won’t release bidders’ names

Although Congress has blocked funding this year to build President Donald Trump’s promised border wall, his administration announced Friday it is moving forward with plans to develop designs. In a notice posted to the federal contracting site fbo.gov, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that the agency has completed its first phase of evaluating “white

Oklahoma lawmaker on immigrant children: ‘Turn them over to ICE’

A state lawmaker in Oklahoma has suggested deporting undocumented children as a way to cut millions from the cash-strapped state’s public school budget. State Rep. Mike Ritze told Oklahoma City’s News9 that the new Republican Platform Caucus has figured that removing “82,000 non-English speaking students” from Oklahoma’s public schools could save $60 million. “Identify them

‘This is a man’s job’ remark leads to settlement, but manager stays

Government officials warned colleagues this charity was a cult – to no avail

Workers at the U.S. Embassy in Malawi sought to raise the alarm about an organization seeking U.S.-government funds that it labeled a cult. But a foreign aid official rejected the information as “clear bias.”

OSHA tells companies to report injuries. There’s no website for that yet

The nation’s top workplace safety regulator has directed scores of companies to begin submitting their injury records, but with the impending deadline less than two months away, there is still no website set up for these workplaces to comply.